A growing movement aims to set the course for a constitutional convention to rewrite the governing document. The convention legislation seems unlikely to make it through both the House and Senate ...

But current Gov. Gavin Newsom is more ambitious, seeking the first national constitutional convention since 1787, even before George Washington was elected president. Newsom thinks he can confine ...

But current Gov. Gavin Newsom is more ambitious, seeking the first national constitutional convention since 1787, even before George Washington was elected president. Newsom thinks he can confine ...

The Indiana General Assembly is officially asking Congress to convene an unprecedented Convention of the States to consider adding congressional term limits to the U.S. Constitution. That makes ...

The Indiana House approved a joint resolution by a 66-30 vote on Monday calling for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution ― a proposal that requires identical resolutions to pass 33 other ...

The Ohio GOP appears to be lining up behind the idea of a constitutional convention, with resolutions introduced in both the Ohio House and Senate. No more birthright citizenship, anyone?

The Convention of the States picked those three topics because “they’re the ones that are not going to come out of Washington, DC, plain and simple,” said Diane Telles, the organization’s ...

HE’S ENCOURAGING THAT SPIRIT TO GET BEHIND AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION OF STATES, A NEVER BEFORE USED CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, HE SAYS, WOULD ALLOW STATE LEGISLATURES TO CHECK THE POWER OF THE ...

The U.S. Constitution is more than two centuries old. It hasn't been amended for three decades. Is it finally time for a rewrite? Democrats worry about a "'runaway convention' where anything and ...

The example of the original Constitutional Convention provides good reason to fear a second one. Called in 1787 to address perceived flaws in the nation’s original governing charter, the ...

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a new constitutional convention to pass a gun safety amendment and California lawmakers backed his plan. Now, some Democrats fear the specter of a right ...